Happy Thanksgiving to Ambassador Gutman, his family, all of the staff of the US Embassy and all of the American expats living in Belgium : we Belgians are proud and happy to have you amongst us! The turkey is in the oven in my house!

I don't get get it! Yesterday I saw mister Biden say that the US and Europe should take the leading role on climate change. Than why did president Obama disappear behind the curtain with some Chinese delegation while a real progress could have been made in Kopenhagen? Strange, very strange :(

An anonymous reader links us to a report from The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which came out earlier this year, that highlights how, in 2008, the US government bought in 170 million by licensing federally (i.e., taxpayer-funded) technology and patents to private companies. It details which agencies are getting how
many patents, showing that the government appears to get, on average,
between 1,000 and 1,500 patents per year. Now,…